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Joseph’s parents will then be joined by other bereaved families, MPs supporting calls for change, and representatives from the road safety charity Brake, at an event in Hyde Park.

They have previously handed a petition calling for change, containing more than 20,000 signatures, to Downing Street.

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Ian and Dawn Brown-Lartey said: “We will never get over the loss of our beautiful son Joseph, who had his whole life ahead of him.

“Hearing that his killer will serve half of a six-year sentence was a further slap in the face to us and our family.

“The law needs to change so that sentences for causing death by dangerous driving reflect the crime. We can’t bring Joseph back, but what we can do is campaign in his name to stop other families going through what we are. Joseph’s car was split in two.

“The emergency services said it was the worst road crash they had ever seen.

“We want people to see that devastation first hand in the hope of educating young drivers but also to hit home with the government the importance of our campaign.”

Heywood and Middleton MP Liz McInnes said: “No parents should have to suffer what they are going through.

“The very least that they deserve is the knowledge that their son’s killer is serving a sentence which fits the crime.”

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Gary Rae, director of communications and campaigns for Brake, the road safety charity, said: “There are too many families, like the Brown-Lartey’s, who suffer the double trauma of losing a loved one in a sudden and violent way, and then witness the judicial system turning its back on them.

“That’s why we’re launching our Roads to Justice campaign, which calls on government to get tough on criminal drivers who kill or seriously injure others.”